Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

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Yeah, AC does consider it a leg of their flight, but the benefits pretty much end there. There is no through connection of baggage, no through connection of security, no through connection of ticketing. Nothing.

There is zero reason that the bus should go to the airport. Yes, YKF is more convenient than Pearson, but it is less convenient than virtually every other location within the region of Waterloo. It's inaccessible by further transit, it's relatively expensive to park at, it's relatively remote and not that well connected to the road network. It's on the wrong side of the river.

Less convenient: I dunno, man, I get mad every time I have to go to the Boardwalk, but maybe that's for other reasons. The taxi to YKF cost me $30 last time, which is a lot less than the taxi to YYZ. And, as SammyOES points out, it's a much smaller ask to get a ride to YKF than to YYZ. 



The revealed preference is that I will, in fact, take the YKF bus when I'm not on a tight schedule. The protection from misconnects is actually reasonably important in a world where the 401 may occasionally and randomly be broken. 

I don't care about baggage and security. Indeed, I know for a fact that you can be extremely late with baggage at YKF and they will frown at you but print out your baggage tags anyway. Then, because I fly often and I have NEXUS, I don't really have to wait for baggage and security at YYZ. I don't know what you mean by through connection of ticketing. You can definitely get boarding passes at YKF, though you can also just have them on your phone.

There would also need to be a location in the city which AC would need to rent. Seems more expensive than an airport, which they very much know how to rent, and comes handy with a baggage scale and computers talking to the right networks.